Trophic relations of the Hoopoe in region of the Ukrainian Carpathians. - I.V. Skilsky, O.M. Klitin. - Berkut. 9 (1-2). 2000. P. 82-85.
Original (Bukovina) and literature (Transcarpathians) data are summarized (47 stomachs and rests of food near a nest). They were obtained during the second half of XX cent. Remains of 460 components were found. Invertebrates prevail – 98,9 % (more than 38 species). Imago and larvae of Coleoptera dominate during the whole spring-summer period, caterpillars of Lepidoptera prevail only in April and May. [Ukrainian].
Key words: Hoopoe, Upupa epops, the Carpathians, ecology, feeding.
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